46805 Quotes & Sayings

However often you may have done them a favour, if you once refuse they forget everything except your refusal. — Pliny The Younger

There is no good reason why we should not develop and change until the last day we live. — Karen Horney

I guess that isn't the right word, she said. She was used to apologizing for her use of language. She had been encouraged to do a lot of that in school. Most white people in Midland City were insecure when they spoke, so they kept their sentences short and their words simple, in order to keep embarrassing mistakes to a minimum. Dwayne certainly did that. Patty certainly did that.
This was because their English teachers would wince and cover their ears and give them flunking grades and so on whenever they failed to speak like English aristocrats before the First World War. Also: they were told that they were unworthy to speak or write their language if they couldn't love or understand incomprehensible novels and poems and plays about people long ago and far away, such as Ivanhoe. — Kurt Vonnegut

The world has been fair cruel if you've never known the love of a dog! — Myrtle Reed

According to the concept of transformational evolution, first clearly articulated by Lamarck, evolution consists of the gradual transformation of organisms from one condition of existence to another. — Ernst W. Mayr

We are aware of the strategic location of Kuwait, besides the stable region. — Emma Bonino

Even the best of constitutions need sometimes to be amended and improved, for after all there is but one constitution which is infallible, but one constitution that ought to be held sacred, and that is the human constitution. — Ernestine Rose

I'm not afraid of portraying anything on-screen. — Halle Berry

Too many people in the modern world view poetry as a luxury, not a necessity like petrol. But to me it's the oil of life. — John Betjeman